16. Prosperous

The city gate opened, and the mountain people who were queuing outside entered the city one after another.

Chu Zhiwu was stunned for a moment: "The one who is defending the city today is actually the soldiers of the Black Horse Battalion in Datong County?"

Chu He was puzzled and asked, "Second Uncle, what is the origin of the Black Horse Camp?"

Chu Zhiwu explained: "The Black Horse Battalion is the most elite unit in Datong County, and the mount is the Black Puma. If you want to enter the dark horse camp, you must be able to lift the top and be good at arching horses, which can rival the ordinary three strong men. ”

"The black Puma has a strong physique, can carry thousands of catties, can travel thousands of miles a day and eight hundred at night, cooperate with the elite soldiers of the Black Horse Battalion, and can even collide with the martial arts of the Qi Invasion Realm. ”

Chu Zhiwu looked a little excited: "These three thousand black horse battalions, brave and good at fighting, are the stones of Dingxian in Datong County, and they rarely show up, I didn't expect to see them at the gate of the city." ”

Chu He thought for a while, and then said: "Now that Ji County has been broken, Datong County naturally does not dare to be careless, it is estimated that there are strong bandits mixed among the mountain people and seize the city gate, so the Black Horse Battalion was sent out." ”

Chu Zhiwu nodded, and then stopped talking.

When it was their turn to process, the two Black Horse Battalion soldiers only interrogated Chu Zhiwu slightly, and after collecting the city gate tax of ten wen per person, they let Chu Zhiwu and the others enter the city.

If it was the former city king, there would be a lot of trouble, and after the mountain people who entered the city paid the city gate tax, they had to give some wine money to the city king.

Although Datong County is remote, there are more than 100,000 people in the city, and a large number of mountain people from the following townships have entered the city, making Datong County look quite lively.

The buildings in the county are mostly made of stone, wood and thatch, and compared with the tall city wall, it is really unsightly.

The mansion of the wealthy family with blue bricks and colored tiles that I saw by chance made Datong County a little more meteorological.

However, in Datong County, there are wine shops, inns, restaurants, garment stores, grocery stores, meat stalls, medicine stores, weapons shops, etc.

It seems that there is no concept of advertising here, most of the shops do not advertise at all, and a wooden pole is erected outside the wine store, with a pennant hanging on it, and a big wine word in the book, even if it is a more eye-catching advertisement.

If it weren't for Chu Zhiwu's years at the Shangwu Academy in Datong County, it would be difficult to tell what these shops were running.

Chu River is an eye-opener, in addition to all kinds of shops and stalls, there are people in the three sects and nine streams in Datong County, beggars, mountain people, and there are also miscellaneous people, martial arts sellers, traveling merchants, fortune tellers and so on.

From time to time, Chu He also saw rangers with swords and bows leading horses, or young scholars wearing warrior robes and jade pendants on their waists and swords.

Of course, these rangers, to put it nicely, are actually mostly just gangsters.

Chu He has already tried the limit of the beads that probe the attributes of others, the beads that he calls the eye of the sky, resting for a whole day, recuperating his spirit, and can use the ability to investigate five times in a row.

He curiously investigated a ranger who looked very imposing, who was dressed in angry horses, carrying a short gun and carrying a bow and arrows, who knew his attributes, not even as good as the second uncle, but better than ordinary strong men.

On the contrary, a polite young man in white surprised Chu He, this scholar is no more than twenty years old, but the average attribute has actually reached twenty-two, especially the agility attribute, which is as much as thirty points!

Sure enough, people can't look good, just looking at the appearance, who knows that the ranger with the angry horse and fresh clothes is an embroidered pillow, this polite scholar is the real ruthless character.

Chu Zhiwu asked Chu Shi and Chu Mu to send the steel-toothed wild boar to a familiar butcher, and made an appointment with the place and time of the meeting, before he lowered his voice and said to Chu He: "He'er, if you don't talk about your business, can you tell the eldest brother?"

"He is a scribe in the county office, well-informed, if there is an eldest brother to help, it will help us to develop secretly. ”

Chu Zhenhai has already said that it is strictly forbidden to leak the matter of Chu He's dream of meeting the ancestor of Chu Overlord, even if Chu Zhiwen is Chu He's uncle, Chu Zhiwu does not dare to tell Chu Zhiwen about this matter.

Chu He said with a smile: "Our Chu family has one heart, so naturally we want to know about it with our uncle." ”

"But now there's no hurry, let's go and sell the sword first, and then find the uncle, so that we can give some money to the uncle and help the second uncle find a position in the township protection group." ”

Chu Zhiwu said: "Chu He, you plan to sell the steel sword to the weapon shop?"

"The weapon shop, the focus is on profit, and it must not be able to pay much price, originally the second uncle planned to visit the scholars who practiced martial arts together in the former Shangwu Academy, and recommended the steel sword to them. ”

Chu He shook his head: "It's not appropriate. Selling a steel sword to them can be explained for other reasons, but if steel swords appear one after another in the future, we will definitely be exposed. ”

"We don't have enough to protect the interests of the steel sword now, so we might as well sell it directly to the weapons shop. ”

"Even if we continue to bring steel swords in the future, they will help us hide our identities in order to protect this benefit, not to mention that they don't know where we came from in the first place. ”

Chu Zhiwu is not stupid: "Yes." When our strength grows in the future, even if the secret of the steel sword is revealed, we will be able to keep it. It's yours by the river. ”

He thought for a while, and then said: "The most famous weapon shop in Datong County is the Wang family's weapons shop. Many students, warriors, and even military generals in Datong County bought weapons there. ”

Chu He nodded: "Please lead the way." ”

Chu Zhiwu walked with Chu He for about half an hour, and came to the front of a blue brick shop.

A plaque of the Wang's armory shop is very eye-catching, and there is also an armory rack outside the store, on which eighteen kinds of weapons are placed.

Chu He took a look, these eighteen kinds of weapons are all wrought iron weapons, and most of them are wooden-handled weapons.

There is no comparison between the divine weapons and sharp weapons with various fantasy colors in these weapon romance novels, which makes Chu He seriously doubt whether there are really those powerful armors.

As Chu Zhiwu said, the Wang family's weapons are second to none in Datong County.

Although it was still early, there were already several customers watching the various weapons in the shop.

There were even two strong men with weapons and dancing in the open space outside the shop, and for a while the wind was whistling and the cold light was shining, and the momentum was quite terrifying.

I don't know if I really want to buy weapons, or if it's a means for Wang's shop to attract customers.

Chu He looked outside for a moment, then motioned to Chu Zhiwu and walked into the weapon shop.

When the two entered the shop, a guy immediately greeted them and said enthusiastically: "Two guest officers, please!"

Then he gushed introducing: "I don't know what kind of weapons the two guest officers need?"

"Our Wangjia weapons shop is the most complete weapon shop in Datong County, with all eighteen kinds of weapons, the quality is the highest quality, and it can also tailor weapons for customers......"

Chu He interrupted the man's words with a slight smile: "We are not here to buy weapons, I don't know if your store will accept weapons?" ”

The man's enthusiasm has not changed: "We naturally accept weapons, but we only accept iron weapons, I don't know what weapons the little brother wants to sell?"

In this world, gold, silver, copper and iron are all hard currency, especially now that the empire is in turmoil, the price of iron is almost comparable to the price of copper, and many places even directly use iron to mint money as copper coins.

The copper coin here weighs about three grams, and the Chu blacksmith buys a pound of iron and spends three hundred dollars, that is, nine hundred grams, which shows that the price of iron and copper are very close.

Chu He smiled and took off the steel sword from his back and untied the black cloth: "What I want to sell is this steel sword!"

PS: One pound in this world is calculated according to five hundred grams, not one pound and sixteen taels in ancient times.

This book is a fantasy of the Three Kingdoms, not a real history of the Three Kingdoms, you don't have to be too serious, this also includes some historical figures and geographical situations and so on.

According to the planning of this book, this is a super fantasy world, and there are even more than human beings, all in all, everyone should think that this is a fantasy novel.